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Split your team into two teams. One team will be up to bat/kick and the other team will field. The fielding team should take up positions that they feel will be advantageous to their game plan - don't worry too much about over coaching this - players can learn as they play.

The fielding team should have a pitcher/thrower of the ball. It is his job to stand on the pitching mound and to throw the ball as hard as he can toward the hitter/kicker. The idea is to force the hitter/kicker to struggle to catch the ball. A bad throw is considered wide and three bad throws means the hitter/kicker gets to walk to first base. However, three good throws that are dropped will be considered three strikes and the hitter/kicker will then be out.

So the pitcher throws the ball, as hard as he can, to the kicker/hitter -who if they catch it can make a kick to space. The kick must land on the pitch, but can bounce into touch. If the kick is caught then the hitter/kicker is out. If not then they can start running. They need to get from 1st to 2nd to 3rd to 4th and then back to where they started in order to score a home run. They can stop at any base and be considered safe. However, runners can be called out when running between bases if the fielders manage to get the ball grounded at any of the two bases they are between.

COACHING POINTS

Fielders will have to make long passes to get the ball to where it needs to be, and their communication will need to be excellent. Every member of the hitting team should get to hit, their score totalled. And then the fielding team get to have a go. Decide on how many goes each team should get before you start the game and keep the score running. Feel free to change the laws a little for your team.

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Scrum Half - Shotgun Alley:

Explain to thescrum halfs that they are to attempt to pass the ball at the attackers and attempt to hit them below the shoulders.
It won't be a completed pass as the attackers are just trying to avoid getting hit.
The scrum halfs can move sideways along the edge of grid, however, cannot move forward into the grid.
The attackers can attack when they like, and if hit they can be out - or have more than one life.
When an scrum half makes it through the grid successfully, with out being directly hit by a pass, they wait at the other end till all the other attackers make it.
The scrum halfs must make their passes/hits from the groud.

Sevens

Rugby Tennis:

Tell you players the following......

There will be two players on one side of the middle line of cones, and another group on the other side. They will be two separate teams.
It's rugby tennis, so the aim of the game is to pass the ball in such a way that the other two players won't be able to stop it from going out of play, however.
The ball must be a normal rugby pass, and the ball must hit the ground inside the tennis court on the oppositions side.
The passer must be 2 meters behind the center line.
That's it, lets play.

Passing

Rugby Gaelic Football:

Tell the players the following laws.......

One team will be attacking, the ball carrying team. The other will be a defending team.
Defending players mark attacking players.
The ball is passed by kicking, and can travel in any direction.
Players try to catch the ball in the air, and have 3 seconds to make the pass. They can take 3 steps in that time.
Tries are scored in the usual way.
Players can compete for lose balls.
Players should use all of the space available, and should move the ball to space.

You can make this game a little harder by saying that attacking players must catch the passed ball in the air, if they do not, then the ball is turned over to the other team.

Sevens

Round and Realign:

Tell your players the following......

There will be one ball to each group, any player can be the ball carrier.
On GO, the group moves towards the closest cone.At the cone, the players spread out and attack the line at pace and with width.
They should realign following the attack left, to attack again right.
When the second groups sees the first group complete their first set of passes, they should begin without waiting.

Passing

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